Word: libya
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Great Britain & France, B. Mussolini was in just about the world's hottest spot. One martial move by him, he well knew, and Italy would suffer the full fury of the French Army and two navies. She would probably lose Ethiopia, have to fight hard to hold Libya and not starve. And the Turks would make life unbearable by driving behind the Greeks at Albania...
...clear, the Mediterranean was a maze of variables. It was crisscrossed with conflicting currents that ran ever more strongly; it was marked with eddies and backwaters set up by the rush of opposing interests. Along its southern shore Egypt's Army of 22,500 was mobilized, but also, in Libya, were the 120,000 soldiers of unpredictable Italy (though Italian armies drew back from the frontiers). French Morocco and Algeria, granaries as well as a source of French manpower (total population of France's African Empire: 41,000,000), were valuable to France in proportion as the Mediterranean remained free...
Night lights were turned on again. Foreign mails arrived on time. Troops were withdrawn from Libya's Egyptian border. The French border was reopened...
Italy alone stands in the way. Since 1934 all of Mussolini's moves have been aimed at driving wedges between the Allies' Eastern and Western Fronts. From Sicily, Sardinia and the Spanish Balearics, the Italians menace Britain's island of Malta; from Libya they threaten Egypt. Off the coast of Asia Minor they have a naval base at Leros in that happy hunting ground of submarines-the Aegean. The master stroke of recent Italian history was the seizure of Albania. For between Albania's capital of Tirana and the Greek port of Salonika there...
...ceremonies, not one journal mentioned the fact that Dictator Mussolini was born on July 29, 1883. Newspaper proprietors perhaps remembered the case of one enterprising journalist who found himself without a job after he had published a picture of Il Duce standing beside Italo Balbo, now Governor General of Libya. Governor Balbo looked years younger than Dictator Mussolini. Editors in Italy do not refer to Il Duce as a grandfather; they understand that the picture of Signor Mussolini slipping gracefully into old age is not for Fascist consumption. Featured instead is the fact that Il Duce pilots his own plane...